"Breathing Styles originated four hundred years ago. What the initial Breathing Style looked like is impossible to verify, but regardless, the five styles — Wind, Thunder, Water, Flame, and Stone — must be the five fundamental Breathing Styles closest to the original. All subsequent derived Breathing Styles were created based on these."
Morioka Nen set down his bamboo sword and continued, "The principle of Breathing Styles is to absorb a large amount of oxygen from the air through a specific breathing method, allowing the lungs to rapidly deliver this oxygen throughout the body. This grants superhuman physical ability and explosive power. Simultaneously, reaction speed and recovery capabilities are also enhanced by the Breathing Style. Only in this way can we, with our flesh and blood, contend with those Demons."
Qingshui offered no comment on Morioka Nen's words.
If simply absorbing a large amount of oxygen in a short time can achieve such a feat, wouldn't I be invincible with an oxygen mask?
More likely, I'd get oxygen poisoning from too much oxygen concentration.
According to Qingshui's guess, the Demon Slayer Corps' Breathing Styles were a method of capturing energy freely floating in the air. By leveraging this energy, they gained power when performing Breathing Styles. The large oxygen intake was merely to allow the body to better cooperate with the energy.
The Demon Slayer Corps probably made their judgment after detecting that the oxygen consumed when using Breathing Styles was far greater than that consumed during normal exercise.
And those energies floating freely in the air couldn't be detected by conventional means.
In an era where technology was still relatively backward, it was understandable that the Demon Slayer Corps would come to such a conclusion.
"Wind Breathing has a total of nine sword forms. These were summarized by the initial Wind Breathing swordsman based on the breathing methods he learned and the Swordplay he mastered. Over four hundred years, through the refinement of successive Wind Hashira, every form of the five fundamental Breathing Styles has been meticulously honed."
Morioka Nen retrieved a booklet from inside the house and handed it to Qingshui.
This was the textbook.
"Sword forms are quite difficult for those with a weak foundation in swordsmanship, but with your flexibility and Swordplay ability, Qingshui-kun, it won't be hard to master if you put in the effort. The real difficulty lies in the Breathing Style itself, and how to combine the Breathing Style with the sword forms."
After Qingshui finished reading the breathing techniques, Morioka Nen explained them in detail again. Only then did he pick up his bamboo sword and demonstrate in front of Qingshui.
"*Wind Breathing: First Form, Dust Whirlwind Cutter!*"
Morioka Nen intentionally slowed down some of his movements. His uninjured leg swiftly stomped the ground, and he swung the bamboo sword. His body instantly shot from one end of the courtyard to the other, leaving a long, spiraling wind blade in his wake.
Qingshui watched this scene with full concentration, simultaneously sharing the memory with his main body.
Skills related to wind should be quickly picked up by the main body and Qingshui in the DC Universe.
Since Qingshui in the Naruto World couldn't leave at the moment, this part of the memory was synchronized with Qingshui in the DC Universe.
Morioka Nen then began the subsequent forms.
"*Wind Breathing, Second Form: Claws-Purifying Wind!*"
"*Wind Breathing, Third Form: Clear Storm Wind Tree!*"
After demonstrating two more forms, Morioka Nen paused slightly, taking a few breaths before continuing with the fourth form.
"*Wind Breathing: Fourth Form, Rising Sandstorm!*"
A tornado composed of countless wind blades shot straight into the sky, but Morioka Nen stopped his movements, sitting down on a nearby chair and patting his leg.
"Qingshui-kun, I apologize. My legs aren't what they used to be, and to avoid aggravating old injuries, I can only demonstrate the first four forms for now."
Morioka Nen said with an apologetic expression.
"It's fine, thank you, Senior Morioka. May I try practicing it first?"
Morioka Nen nodded slightly.
So Qingshui picked up a new bamboo sword and began to try, following Morioka Nen's previous movements and explanation of the Breathing Style.
"*Wind Breathing: First Form, Dust Whirlwind Cutter!*"
Qingshui also stomped his foot and lunged forward, but behind him, only a few swirling breezes, unable to coalesce into wind blades, picked up a bit of dust from the ground.
The technique was wrong; the wind blade condensed on the bamboo sword wasn't solid enough.
Without getting discouraged, Qingshui continued to practice the next few sword forms.
As expected, none of them were successfully performed.
The second and third forms, like the first, produced a slight effect, but the fourth form, which was relatively more difficult, was somewhat formless.
The old monk sat on a chair under the tree, drinking tea and watching Qingshui.
Actually, achieving this effect on the first try was quite good. Just as he was about to stand up to point out Qingshui's mistakes, Qingshui suddenly closed his eyes, standing frozen in place.
At the same time.
In the DC Universe, Qingshui's other Avatar stood in a cleared-out space in the laboratory, holding a steel pipe and performing the Wind Breathing forms.
The first time, the four forms were performed more or less correctly. The second time, he even sped up, self-correcting some of the flaws from the previous attempt.
Now, for any skill related to wind, as long as he knew the principle and had seen a demonstration once, he could almost always learn it immediately.
After receiving the memory, the main body directly packaged and sent out this memory.
Qingshui in the Demon Slayer World opened his eyes, letting out a long breath. After a simple adjustment of his breathing, he once again gripped the bamboo sword.
Morioka Nen looked at Qingshui's stance, keenly noticing the difference from last time.
"*Wind Breathing: First Form, Dust Whirlwind Cutter!*"
A verdant spiraling wind blade was left behind Qingshui, and in an instant, claw-shaped wind blades flew forward.
"*Wind Breathing, Second Form: Claws-Purifying Wind!*"
"*Wind Breathing, Third Form: Clear Storm Wind Tree!*"
Crescent-shaped wind blades fanned out around Qingshui, and the next moment, a tornado formed by swirling wind blades twisted its way up into the sky.
The old monk, Morioka Nen, was dumbfounded.
He had taught at least dozens, if not a hundred, swordsmen who used Wind Breathing, but this was the first time he'd ever seen such a genius.
Yet, Qingshui wasn't entirely satisfied.
This Avatar ultimately didn't synchronize with the superpowers of the DC Universe Avatar. Although it fully inherited the relevant memories, it lacked the instinctual connection with wind, making its effectiveness somewhat inferior to the DC Universe Avatar's.
However, Qingshui wasn't about to synchronize talents with the Demon Slayer World Avatar.
That would be far too extravagant.
While Qingshui was dissatisfied with himself, the old monk couldn't have been more pleased.
"Now I understand why the Wind Hashira believes you have the potential to become a Hashira!"
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